Colorado Fourteeners

This is a list of mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado that exceed of elevation.

In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a ''fourteener'' is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet. This is a complete list of the 53 fourteeners in the U.S. State of Colorado with at least of topographic prominence. See the main fourteener article, which has a list of all of the fourteeners in the United States, for some information about how such lists are determined and caveats about elevation and ranking accuracy.

The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
#The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.All elevations in the 48 states of the contiguous United States include an elevation adjustment from the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). For further information, please see this United States National Geodetic Surveybr>note
If the elevation or prominence of a summit is calculated as a range of values, the arithmetic mean is shown.
#The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.The topographic prominence of a summit is the topographic elevation difference between the summit and its highest or key col to a higher summit. The summit may be near its key col or quite far away. The key col for Denali in Alaska is the Isthmus of Rivas in Nicaragua, away.This list of the 53 Colorado fourteeners includes 28 peaks with over 14,000 feet of elevation but less than 1640 feet of topographic prominence: Torreys Peak, Quandary Peak, Mount Shavano, Mount Belford, Crestone Needle, Mount Bross, Kit Carson Mountain, Tabeguache Peak, Mount Oxford, Mount Democrat, Snowmass Mountain, Windom Peak, Challenger Point, Mount Columbia, Missouri Mountain, Humboldt Peak, Mount Bierstadt, Sunlight Peak, Ellingwood Point, Mount Lindsey, Little Bear Peak, Mount Sherman, Redcloud Peak, Pyramid Peak, Wilson Peak, Wetterhorn Peak, Huron Peak, and Sunshine Peak.

The list of the 55 Colorado major 4000-meter summits includes 30 peaks with more than 500 meters of topographic prominence and between 4000 and 4267 meters in elevation: Grizzly Peak, Mount Ouray, Vermilion Peak, Mount Silverheels, Rio Grande Pyramid, Bald Mountain, Mount Oso, Mount Jackson, Bard Peak, West Spanish Peak, Mount Powell, Hagues Peak, Tower Mountain, Treasure Mountain, North Arapaho Peak, Parry Peak, Bill Williams Peak, Sultan Mountain, Mount Herard, West Buffalo Peak, Summit Peak, Middle Peak, Antora Peak, Henry Mountain, Hesperus Mountain, Jacque Peak, Bennett Peak, Conejos Peak, Twilight Peak, and South River Peak.

The first 25 summits on the 4000-meter list are included on both lists: Mount Elbert, Mount Massive, Mount Harvard, La Plata Peak, Blanca Peak, Uncompahgre Peak, Crestone Peak, Mount Lincoln, Castle Peak, Grays Peak, Mount Antero, Mount Evans, Longs Peak, Mount Wilson, Mount Princeton, Mount Yale, Maroon Peak, Mount Sneffels, Capitol Peak, Pikes Peak, Mount Eolus, Handies Peak, Culebra Peak, San Luis Peak, and Mount of the Holy Cross.


#The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation.The topographic isolation of a summit is the great-circle distance to its nearest point of equal elevation.

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Fourteeners

The following sortable table comprises the 53 Colorado summits with at least of elevation and at least of topographic prominence.

Gallery

Image:MtElbert TurquoiseLake.jpg, View of Mount Elbert with Turquoise Lake in the foreground.
Image:MtBlancaEast.jpg, View of Blanca Peak from Mount Lindsey.
Image:kitcarsonmtn.jpg, The Crestones as seen from Mount Adams. From left to right: Crestone Needle, Crestone Peak, Columbia Point, Kit Carson Peak, Challenger Point.
Image:Grays and Torreys Peaks 2006-08-06.jpg, View of Grays Peak on left and Torreys Peak on right.
Image:Longs_Peak.jpg, View of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Image:Mt.yale edit.JPG, View of Mount Yale.
Image:Maroon_Bells_Aspens.JPG, Autumn view of the Maroon Bells: Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak.
Image:Mtsneffels.jpg, View of Mount Sneffels.
Image:Mt_Democrat.jpg, View of Mount Democrat.
Image:Mount Eolus.jpg, View of Mount Eolus.
Image:humboldt_peak.jpg, Humboldt Peak as seen from Kit Carson Peak.
Image:Marmotmtn.jpg, View of Mount Bierstadt with a marmot in the foreground.
Image:Mt._Lindsey.jpg , View of Mount Lindsey.
Image:San Miguel Mountains.jpg, View of Wilson Peak and the San Miguel Mountains as seen from Telluride Ski Resort.
Image:Mount of the Holy Cross.jpeg, Photograph of the Mount of the Holy Cross taken by William Henry Jackson in 1873.

See also

*List of mountain peaks of North America
**List of mountain peaks of Greenland
**List of mountain peaks of Canada
**List of mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains
**List of mountain peaks of the United States
***List of mountain peaks of Alaska
***List of mountain peaks of California
***List of mountain peaks of Colorado
****List of the highest major summits of Colorado
***** List of the major 4000-meter summits of Colorado
***** List of the major 3000-meter summits of Colorado
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****List of the most prominent summits of Colorado
****List of mountain ranges of Colorado
***List of mountain peaks of Hawaii
*** List of mountain peaks of Montana
*** List of mountain peaks of Nevada
*** List of mountain peaks of Utah
*** List of mountain peaks of Washington (state)
*** List of mountain peaks of Wyoming
** List of mountain peaks of México
** List of mountain peaks of Central America
**List of mountain peaks of the Caribbean
*Colorado
**Geography of Colorado
*** :Mountains of Colorado
**** commons:Mountains of Colorado
*Physical geography
**Topography
***Topographic elevation
*** Topographic prominence
***Topographic isolation

Notes

References

External links

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

Geographic Names Information System @ USGSUnited States National Geodetic Survey (NGS)

Geodetic Glossary @ NGS

NGVD 29 to NAVD 88 online elevation converter @ NGS

Survey Marks and Datasheets @ NGSBivouac.comPeakbagger.comPeaklist.orgSummitpost.orgNomadcolorado.com for printable fourteeners checklist

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